Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , because the umbilical goes through the basket , the diver can always find his way back . |
| 2 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 3 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 4 | But I 'm very annoyed with er , the incessant canting about the John Major government . |
| 5 | But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown . |
| 6 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 7 | During the desper ate days of July , the wounded lingered in the foul , dark , excrement-ridden vaults of Fort Souville for over six days before they could be evacuated . |
| 8 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 9 | So great was the carnage that warriors fought over bodies of the dead and ravens feasted on the wounded trapped inside the mounds of corpses . |
| 10 | Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods . |
| 11 | The villus height depends upon two factors ; firstly on cellular multiplication and differentiation from the crypts ; and secondly on the migration of mature cells along the villus axis , accompanied by the cellular shedding from the apex . |
| 12 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 13 | How the Deaf Served in the War |
| 14 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 15 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 16 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 17 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
| 18 | The rich fled to the hill stations and the beggars followed them . |
| 19 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 20 | Few questions ask the rich to struggle through the problems of the poor . |
| 21 | The rich fumed about the council tax , the poor about Norman Lamont 's decision to raise VAT on fuel . |
| 22 | The ego reaches down to it in its ‘ lower ’ portions , and the repressed merges with the id . |
| 23 | The donation was similar to unemployment benefit and from November 1918 was available for periods up to a maximum of thirteen weeks to all the unemployed covered by the 1911 insurance scheme , to ex-servicemen , civilians , insured and non-insured alike . |
| 24 | The proportion of the unemployed identified by the survey who were not registered in the period 1978–81 is shown in Table 3.4 . |
| 25 | I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street . |
| 26 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 27 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 28 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 29 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 30 | Walsingham wrote that the English broke off the siege of Quimperlê and returned home sadly and slowly , and rumours of treachery and corruption soon began to circulate . |